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Subject: Re: Boot and MBR (Gnome)
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Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:11:28PM -0900, Mark Weisman wrote:
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>>The second question I have, is can I put the command startx into my
>>rc.conf file to have it boot directly into the x-server? Any help on
>>these two would be awesome. Thanks.
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<snip>

>If you're a Gnome user, there's a workalike program gdm(8) you might
>want to use instead, and I believe the KDE stuff comes with (surprise,
>surprise) kdm(8).  Their documentation should tell you exactly what
>you need to put into /etc/ttys in order to substitute them for xdm(8).
>
>	Cheers,
>
>	Matthew
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I did this just last night; this seems to do it
(and I was a bad boy, just hacked it w/o looking
at the docs) ....

<kadmin@archangel> [/home/kadmin][10:26]
#cat /etc/ttys | grep gdm
ttyv0   "/usr/X11R6/bin/gdm"            cons25  on  secure


Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.